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Larry Aceves on teachers, testing & spending
- 09-17-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Larry Aceves, the dark-horse candidate for Superintendent of Public Instruction who won the primary in June, dislikes “merit pay” for individual teachers but believes parents should be entitled to know how effective their child’s teachers are in improving test scores. Aceves, who will face Assemblyman Tom Torlakson in the Nov. 2 election, made those comments during a video interview with me. Aceves also criticized teachers’ unions for not working with districts on changing the way they are evaluated. “They have not been cooperative on how we do that. They stood back and said, ‘It ain’t my job,’” he said. But he said that in becoming engaged in the process, teachers can work to create a system that helps them improve and that puts standardized test scores in perspective, as one factor in an evaluation. (more…)
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